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April 1, 2015April 1, 2015

30 and STILL single…

30 year old me.

So, I’m 30 and single. I would like to have kids one day, but what if my time is running out? It’s not easy to date as a 30 year old. As research for this post (honest!) I googled ‘dating in your 30s top tips’ and I found lots of help – most of it wasn’t useful; it was aimed at women who were balancing a career, children and dating. Well, I don’t have the kids yet, that’s why I’m googling this! I was even more depressed by this point that I decided I needed to meet a man. Now. It got me thinking of the whole thought process I imagine most single women go through on a semi-regular basis…

Eurgh. I am the only single one left out of all my friends. Even my single friends now have boyfriends.

While scrolling Facebook, how come all these people I went to school with are now announcing their second child’s imminent arrival?

How come they’re all on number two and I’m not even near considering number one?!

Right. I need to go to a bar. With men. I’m not going to find my future baby daddy sitting at home in my pyjamas on a Friday night, am I?

Finds single friend to go to pub with. Okay, so I’m not the only single one left, but she’s younger than me. She’ll be fine.

Get to the pub with hair done and lipstick on, cause, making an effort.

Find a table in the corner at the back and wait for all the attractive men to come over and chat us up.

*Waits*

Surveying the bar, actually there are no hot men in here (very shallow). None of these men will be the future father of my child.

Let’s face it, if there was a really hot man in here I wouldn’t go and speak to him anyway.

Who does that these days?!

How do you even meet people in real life? It’s not safe out here without my computer screen/ipad/iphone…

Sit for an hour discussing previous relationships, potential dates (there are none, this bit doesn’t take long) and why do we always want the guys who are unavailable?

Why couldn’t I fancy that nice, safe guy I dated briefly a while back? Maybe I should give him a call…

Unsociably scrolling through Facebook. Oh look, my friend’s sister’s best friend’s cousin just had her first baby at 37.

Met her partner two years ago, lived together after 6 months and married in a year.